She still can't wrap her mind around the fact that her adopted son had been charged for uttering threats against an employee of the agency responsible for his well-being.

"He should never have been there," Salomon said of the remand centre. "You don't put someone with this kind of mental state in jail."

Court-ordered care

Salomon said she had been trying to locate her son since his arrest on June 19.

She said that for three weeks, Baril-Blouin was transferred back and forth between the Edmonton Remand Centre and the Royal Alexandra Hospital. She knew he was being moved around but was never able to connect with him.